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LabWiki Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA20417
Release Date: 2006-06-05
Last Update: 2006-06-21
Popularity: 4,308 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:LabWiki 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2850
CVE-2006-2968


Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in LabWiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "help" parameter in recentchanges.php and the "query" parameter in search.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

Examples:
http://[host]/recentchanges.php?help=">[code]
http://[host]/search.php?query=">[code]

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
r0t

Additional information provided by luny.

Changelog:
2006-06-06: Added additional information provided by luny. Updated "Description" section.
2006-06-08: Added CVE reference.
2006-06-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2006/06/labwiki-xss-vuln.html


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